A Companion to Roman Italy
Edited by Alison Cooley This collection of essays investigates the impact of Rome in all its forms — political, cultural, social, and economic — upon Italy’s various regions, as well as the extent to which unification…
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Skeletal Evidence for the Impact of Battle on Soldiers
By Maria Liston Abstract: Few battle cemeteries have been excavated and those that have been were, for the most part, dug before skeletal biology was a part of Mediterranean archaeology. In the Athenian Agora…
Shipwreck cargoes in the western Mediterranean and the organization of Roman maritime trade
By Candace Rice Abstract: Much has been written about the nature and scale of Roman maritime trade, yet there remains no detailed analysis of the range of shipwreck cargoes at our disposal and the information that they…
Citizens among Outsiders in Plautus’s Roman Cosmopolis. A Moment of Change
By Elena Isayev Chapter in Citizens in the Graeco-Roman world : Aspects of Citizenship from the Archaic Period to AD 212, edited by Lucia Cecchet and Anna Busetto,pp.135-155. Published by Brill, 2017 View Print Book at…
Virtus Effeminata and Sallust’s Sempronia
By Barbara Weiden Boyd Article in Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974-), vol. 117, 1987, pp. 183–201. View on JSTOR
The Elegiac Woman at Rome
By Maria Wyke Article in Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, no. 33 (213), 1987, pp. 153–178. View on JSTOR
Women’s Voices and Catullus’ Poetry
By Judith P. Hallett Article in The Classical World, vol. 95, no. 4, 2002, pp. 421–424. View on JSTOR
Julius Caesar and the Roman stasis
By Ayelet Peer Abstract: Thucydides was perhaps the most influential historian in antiquity; his work inspired countless subsequent authors. In the past decade, interest in the connection between Julius Caesar’s…
Divinization and Didactic Efficacy in Virgil’s Georgics
By Bobby Xinyue Abstract: Virgil’s Georgics offers near-contemporary responses to and repeated meditations on the subject of the divinization of Octavian, the soon-to-be Augustus, who in the wake of his victory at…
Athletics in the Ancient World
By Zahra Newby Abstract: This book offers an introduction to the many forms that athletics took in the ancient world, and to the sources of evidence by which we can study it. As well as looking at the role of athletics…
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